WEBVTT 00:01.090 --> 00:02.050 Hi there. 00:02.200 --> 00:08.920 In this lecture, we see Alexander Alekhine playing against Max ODA in 1921, The Hawk. 00:08.950 --> 00:10.600 This is actually a blitz game. 00:10.600 --> 00:13.090 It's a lot of fun sometimes these blitz games. 00:13.450 --> 00:16.630 It's nice that it was a recorded E4 from Alekhine we have. 00:16.630 --> 00:20.680 Oh, we're playing E5 night C for the Vienna game. 00:20.680 --> 00:21.880 We have nine of six. 00:23.740 --> 00:28.480 Bishop C-4 and then we have Bishop B4 here. 00:29.560 --> 00:36.460 So this is interesting delaying for actually I usually play for this is interesting to delay and for 00:37.540 --> 00:44.170 so we have Bishop b4 A-4 now e tanks we have e five and our Queen E seven. 00:44.170 --> 00:46.240 This is a very bad mistake actually. 00:46.930 --> 00:53.680 Black hats play D five here to avoid getting a massive disadvantage. 00:53.680 --> 00:58.600 For example, Bishop B five checkpoint F 37 this position. 00:59.510 --> 01:01.340 After 1965. 01:02.390 --> 01:03.740 Bishop 85. 01:04.820 --> 01:08.600 Before then see six and it gets a bit hairy, actually. 01:09.890 --> 01:14.720 If B takes 9/10, E five is even better than anything else. 01:16.160 --> 01:23.090 And we get a situation with Queen D for hitting the rook, hitting the knight, where actually black 01:23.900 --> 01:26.150 is going to end up with a small edge. 01:26.240 --> 01:27.650 Yeah, this is interesting. 01:27.650 --> 01:28.610 This is the way to. 01:28.850 --> 01:32.440 Definitely the whites play it okay with D5. 01:32.450 --> 01:34.250 That's definitely the recipe here. 01:35.030 --> 01:37.790 So use if we look at this again. 01:39.200 --> 01:41.120 Instead of 1965. 01:42.220 --> 01:44.650 The four plants can be found here as well. 01:46.750 --> 01:54.880 So yeah, it's interesting, but Queenie seven was played and we have Queenie, too. 01:54.880 --> 01:58.090 And this jives basically that night night's back. 01:58.090 --> 02:01.540 Now that goes to G eight. 02:01.570 --> 02:02.380 This is bad news. 02:02.380 --> 02:03.400 95. 02:04.030 --> 02:07.500 It doesn't really matter that the king is inconvenienced either. 02:07.510 --> 02:17.830 D1 F1 whites got a big advantage out of the opening Bishop a59 F3 queen H five Queen Da might have been 02:17.830 --> 02:18.550 slightly better. 02:18.550 --> 02:19.480 Actually. 02:20.020 --> 02:23.340 This position, though, is still it's dominating from white here. 02:23.380 --> 02:23.610 Why? 02:23.620 --> 02:28.190 It could take out the bishop and has already made the tack on F7. 02:28.210 --> 02:29.050 What is black do? 02:29.050 --> 02:30.910 Black doesn't want a castle here. 02:31.630 --> 02:38.410 Otherwise in this operation this is absolutely crushing and h7f7 here is diabolical. 02:40.470 --> 02:44.130 So let's imagine Rook have eight. 02:44.130 --> 02:45.930 But then Knight takes H seven. 02:45.930 --> 02:46.890 This is just crushing. 02:46.890 --> 02:49.320 This is just crushing position for Y. 02:49.890 --> 02:55.110 So anyway, but h five is bad as well for different reasons. 02:56.820 --> 02:59.850 And actually this is actually technically an inaccuracy. 03:00.090 --> 03:00.840 EF six check. 03:00.840 --> 03:03.900 So that's played it's actually I'm not testing on it. 03:04.110 --> 03:08.940 One actually does better just to reinforce the sensor with deformed. 03:08.940 --> 03:16.410 This is a dream position because the queens kind of misplaced on H five anyway for this position for 03:16.410 --> 03:17.880 nine times F four. 03:18.120 --> 03:23.040 This is just huge and we're hitting the queen with the bishop there. 03:23.580 --> 03:28.830 And yeah, you know, this is just absolutely crushing. 03:28.830 --> 03:32.160 We're going to end up crushing black like this instead. 03:32.160 --> 03:34.230 But nine of six is fun. 03:34.230 --> 03:38.640 It looks like a lot of fun to play a lot of things we have G thanks. 03:38.640 --> 03:41.940 F Sex if night sex have sex, sure. 03:41.970 --> 03:43.590 This is a quick knockout. 03:43.620 --> 03:48.420 He takes f six check unless black's going to delay with Queen e five. 03:48.420 --> 03:57.060 But it's a quick knockout, so g thanks is played eight thanks f six check king D Just for the record, 03:57.060 --> 03:58.320 it's fascinating. 03:58.320 --> 04:04.710 If the king had gone here to f eight, there are interesting possibilities for black Actually, after 04:04.710 --> 04:11.310 rook e one black has to play nine times f six to give g seven an escape square. 04:12.720 --> 04:15.780 And here one does have, though. 04:17.050 --> 04:18.730 Queenie seven Shaq. 04:18.730 --> 04:23.650 And there's only one move for advantage, though, here you have to find in this position. 04:23.650 --> 04:24.760 Otherwise it's not. 04:25.090 --> 04:26.110 Not great. 04:28.930 --> 04:31.000 Can you see what that that move is? 04:37.000 --> 04:43.470 Okay the move would be rookie five that that seems to be technically the only move for advantage. 04:43.860 --> 04:45.420 So hitting the queen. 04:45.960 --> 04:50.550 And if the queen moves to the G4, we have Rook G5, either G4 or G6. 04:50.550 --> 04:53.070 We pin, we basically win the Queen. 04:53.070 --> 04:53.760 We're threatening Queen. 04:53.760 --> 04:59.100 Snakes have seven now, so rookie eight queen tanks have seven or rook takes and then Queen takes have 04:59.100 --> 04:59.670 seven. 05:01.320 --> 05:03.720 Yeah, we'll just queen takes of seven here. 05:04.140 --> 05:07.860 So this winning the queen leads to a clear advantage anyway. 05:08.430 --> 05:09.960 Well, that's absolutely devastating. 05:09.960 --> 05:11.730 But, you know, what does black do? 05:12.780 --> 05:13.680 Blacks can lose the queen. 05:13.680 --> 05:15.690 It is a clear advantage. 05:15.690 --> 05:19.400 But even more incisive, actually, sort of queenly. 05:19.410 --> 05:27.120 Seven channels also be for accelerating pressure on F6, which could come in very handy as a common 05:27.120 --> 05:28.050 square hair. 05:28.230 --> 05:35.460 So first this, an ambitious B two and black's just not in a state here to really handle this dance 05:35.700 --> 05:36.480 pressure. 05:36.900 --> 05:42.350 If King G7, we can bring the king out for moments and then Queen Eve seven check. 05:42.360 --> 05:50.760 This is even stronger than the other variation where rookie five again is a really crushing blow actually 05:50.760 --> 05:51.960 for Rook G5. 05:52.080 --> 05:59.760 So yeah, it is some fast that there are some fascinating variations with King F eight to explore which 05:59.760 --> 06:02.340 are of interest there for us as attacking players. 06:02.340 --> 06:09.840 Do we rush into double do we play move like B4 Yeah it's interesting this this position and it turns 06:09.840 --> 06:16.830 out B4 can actually be a very strong alternative here because we have invested a pace so black counter 06:16.830 --> 06:20.880 investing for king safety it can be a little bit tricky. 06:20.880 --> 06:26.520 So but we're basically sometimes with this bishop on B2 that's a magnificent attacking piece. 06:26.520 --> 06:31.440 Quite often across that diagonal looking at Black's kingside and Black's king is still on the King's 06:31.440 --> 06:32.160 side here. 06:32.160 --> 06:34.590 So this is just great stuff as well to consider. 06:34.590 --> 06:39.840 But anyway, in the game, back to the game, King D eight was played, which is a bit easier to handle 06:39.840 --> 06:40.260 now. 06:40.260 --> 06:41.610 Now, yeah. 06:41.610 --> 06:44.130 Rook e one looking at the common square. 06:44.130 --> 06:47.280 E eight and it's all over. 06:47.490 --> 06:49.020 Black resigns here. 06:49.350 --> 06:57.060 There is one possibility to play on with C five in this case or C six to give the king an escape square. 06:57.090 --> 07:03.870 In both cases, you know, B4 is a great move just to activate this bishop on c one, you know this 07:03.870 --> 07:04.650 position. 07:05.280 --> 07:11.790 So we're not quite mating, but it is a totally dominating position with a pass pull now on f6. 07:13.860 --> 07:14.280 Yeah. 07:14.280 --> 07:16.270 If see instead. 07:16.290 --> 07:19.440 Again b4 is very strong this kind of situation. 07:19.660 --> 07:28.110 D4 opens up this spaceship and here for example, plants can end up losing material to have to defend 07:28.260 --> 07:32.790 d6 its its absolutely crushing position. 07:34.270 --> 07:34.720 Yeah. 07:34.720 --> 07:37.870 So it's a fun game. 07:37.870 --> 07:39.550 It really is a fun game. 07:39.550 --> 07:45.940 And it shows the some of the powers of the Vienna game, which I use frequently in Blitz, but I usually 07:45.940 --> 07:53.470 myself play at four and is considered a kind of mistake to take care because of E5. 07:54.190 --> 08:01.840 And if Queen is having this and White gets a big advantage here based on 95, but quite often, you 08:01.840 --> 08:10.840 know, taking time here as well with my friend D4, it's still it's a huge position for White's already, 08:10.840 --> 08:16.570 you know Black's development has been impeded dramatically but that's that's a theoretical discussion 08:16.570 --> 08:17.530 there about the Vienna. 08:17.530 --> 08:22.930 But yeah it can lead to these big attacking positions of black steps up and black kind of dead in this 08:22.930 --> 08:26.500 relation is just one of a bit of difference with these two bishops here. 08:26.530 --> 08:30.490 So this is like a Vienna game mistake being demonstrated as well. 08:30.610 --> 08:32.260 In a theoretical sense. 08:32.500 --> 08:35.620 This is just a huge position to get from the Vienna game. 08:35.890 --> 08:37.210 But as mentioned. 08:37.950 --> 08:39.930 What doesn't even have to play Night of Things. 08:39.960 --> 08:43.830 It's just huge here with the Queen as a target for night takes a fall. 08:44.370 --> 08:46.410 So, yeah, this is just wonderful stuff. 08:46.950 --> 08:50.880 If we're getting an F seven target later on, we can play it energetically like this. 08:51.330 --> 08:53.820 And yeah, it's just a huge possession there. 08:53.970 --> 08:56.310 But yeah, job done in the game. 08:56.880 --> 09:01.980 King Makes things even easier, but it's just a huge position in any case. 09:03.720 --> 09:04.650 So funny stuff. 09:04.890 --> 09:07.810 Resigning here without further ado. 09:07.830 --> 09:12.450 So a fun blitz game between them, these two past world chess champions. 09:12.480 --> 09:15.390 I hope you enjoyed this game so much.